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Another Person May Have Been Fully Cured Of HIV

Another patient with HIV has remarkably gone into remission after receiving stem cell transplantation 10 years ago for leukemia, making him one of only a tiny number to have been effectively cured of HIV. Following a bone marrow transplant in 2013, the 53-year-old man now has no detectable HIV within his blood and stopped all treatment for the disease in 2018, suggesting the high-risk procedure could be an option to treat HIV.

“This study shows that transplanting blood stem cells from an HIV-resistant donor has led to the development of a new, HIV-resistant immune system in an HIV+ patient,” said Dr Ioannis Jason Limnios, a researcher at the Clem Jones Centre for Regenerative Medicine at Bond University who was not involved in the study, in a statement.

“By following the patient for a decade after transplantation, researchers have shown that their HIV resistant immune system is stable and working well, and that the patient remains healthy after stopping antiviral therapy for 4 years.”

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